Belief Quotes - Page 35

• In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Description, Universe

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• State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people’s belief that they have failed.

  Roger Scruton

  Hands, People, Goal

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• I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.

  Helen Thomas

  Regret, Party, Heart

  "Helen Thomas 'Retires' After Anti-Israeli Jew Remarks". "The Two-way", www.npr.org. June 7, 2010.

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• I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.

  Humphry Davy

  Religious, Believe, Blessing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 241, 1895.

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• There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

  Neil Strauss

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Order

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• You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Winning, Needs, You Re The Best

  "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. April 24, 2013.

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• One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

  Bill Crawford

  Kids, Parent, Mistaken

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• Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

  Bill Crawford

  Stress, Worry, Indicators

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• It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?

  Raymond Smullyan

  Believe, Taken, People

  Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.33, Macmillan

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• The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Reality, Humanity, Dying

  Sherwin B. Nuland (1994). “How We Die”, Vintage

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• For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Sides, Infinity

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.

  Ken Wilber

  Giving, Meditation, Mind

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.83, Shambhala Publications

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• Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development.

  Ken Wilber

  Long, Lines, Firsts

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.542, Shambhala Publications

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• According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

  C. Wright Mills

  Christian, Men, Agnostic

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• Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and exertion to make people understand that faith is true knowledge and not futile beliefs.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Confused, People, Effort

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• Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Believe, Games

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• The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.

  Barry Goldwater

  Gay, Government, People

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• I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Patriotic, Government

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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• Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults us over hurdles, and our lives unfold.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, Winning, People

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.7, Rodale

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• For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

  Pico Iyer

  Home, Light, Luxury

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• The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole. A reductionist philosophy, arbitrarily proclaiming that the growth of understanding must go only in one direction, makes no scientific sense. Indeed, dogmatic philosophical beliefs of any kind have no place in science.

  Freeman Dyson

  Philosophy, Philosophical, One Direction

  John Cornwell, Freeman J. Dyson (1995). “Nature's imagination: the frontiers of scientific vision”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Religious, Believe, Satanic

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• The old beliefs, of course, and the rational approach, are everywhere reinforced, and so it does have a great weight. The magical approach has far greater weight, if you use it and allow yourselves to operate in that fashion, for it has the weight of your basic natural orientation.

  Jane Roberts

  Fashion, Doe, Use

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Magical Approach (A Seth Book): Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living”, p.23, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• I have a very strong belief in God.

  M. Ward

  Strong, Belief In God, Very Strong

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• People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.

  Michael Lewis

  Data, People, Fields

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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